explananda

English translation: note

16:00 May 30, 2007

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Art/Literary - Philosophy

English term or phrase: explananda

Use is made from several traditional explanatory variables in the domain of religion itself, such as religious beliefs, importance of religion, and religiosity.

This ‘internal’ set of **explananda** and explanatia, all from the domain of religion, is challenged first by adding socio-demographic variables and second by introducing nation/city and also traditional values indicators.

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Explanation:
explananda is Latin (passive periphrastic), it means "the things that need to be explained":

explanandum
The thing to be explained (concept, proposition, sentence).
http://www.phil.vt.edu/Valerie/6014/glossary.html

(explanandum, singular; explananda, plural)

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plural of "explanandum" - cont. below

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the facts/things/expressions that are to be explained or explicated

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plural of "explanandum" - cont. below

Explanation:
explanandum - (logic) a statement of something (a fact or thing or expression) to be explained

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/explanandum

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see also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Explanandum

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By the explanandum, we understand the sentence describing the phenomenon to be explained (not that phenomenon itself); by the explanans, the class of those sentences which are adduced to account for the phenomenon

Alexander Onishko
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Ukrainian

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the facts/things/expressions that are to be explained or explicated

Explanation:
This is also in the OED:

explanandum /ˌɛkspləʹnandəm/
► noun (pl. explananda /-ʹnandə/) Philosophy another term for explicandum.

explicandum /ˌɛksplɪʹkandəm/
► noun (pl. explicanda /-ʹkandə/) Philosophy the fact, thing, or expression which is to be explained or explicated.

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